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עַצְלָה

ʻatslâh · H6103 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. laziness, slothfulness, sluggishness

    State in which humans are reluctant to work or make an effort

    Examples

    Proverbs 19:15 Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And a lazy person will suffer hunger.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Lazy002001002017
עַצְלָה denotes slothfulness, the abstract quality of laziness.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָצַל ʻâtsal · H6101 · to be reluctant, to be lazy, to be slothful · 1×עָצֵל ʻâtsêl · H6102 · lazy person, sluggard · 14×עַצְלָהʻatslâh · H6103עַצְלוּת ʻatslûwth · H6104 · to be lazy, to be slothful · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6103. atslah עֵצְלָה noun feminine sluggishness; — ׳י Pro 19:15; dual intensive…
H6103. atslah
עֵצְלָה noun feminine sluggishness; — ׳י Pro 19:15; dual intensive עֲצַלְתַּיִם Ecc 10:18 double (i.e. great) sluggishness (so Thes De and others; read then perhaps עֵצְלָתַיִם; > from עָצֵל a sluggish pair, i.e. hands Ew and others), but improbable; || יָדַיִם שִׁפְלוּת, whence Bi conjectures עֵצְלוּת, Siegf יָדַיִם עֵצְלַת.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Lazy2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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